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Agios Ioannis is right in the centre of the island with easy access to beaches on both east and west coasts, town and airport. The village has slumbered for centuries under the olive and orange groves. It is now a centre for quiet family holidays, but night-life with discos and such-like are within easy reach.
The village square with its taverna at which parents sit chatting, nibbling and sipping while watching their children playing in a multi-lingual babble is only 100 metres from Villa Theodora.
The taverna also serves delicious meals at very reasonable prices. Nitsa, wife of Kosta the proprietor, aided by her younger daughter, Anna, and Nikos, her son-in-law, prepare meals that attract diners from all over the island.
The local four-star hotel on the opposite side of the square, together with apartments and villas all around, does not compete in the catering stakes but send its guests to Kosta's taverna for their meals.
Some thirty years ago Agios Ioannis was the first place on the island to be "discovered" by visiting back-packers who set up the tents amid the olive groves in what is still known as "The Cactus Hilton". Some of those earliest visitors still return bringing their children or even their grandchildren, certain of the warm welcome that the residents extend to every tourist who comes to enjoy our pleasant climate and beautiful environment. Such is its attraction that we have diversified into land and property sales with building management in order to assist the number of our guests who want to find residence here. Lula has become a licensed estate agent!
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